VeriSign, a network infrastructure company, was selected by EPCglobal to run the Object Naming Service, the root directory of the EPC Network. The company is uniquely qualified– VeriSign runs the Internet’s global Domain Name System (DNS) for the ‘.com’ and ‘.net’ top level domains and operates two of the Internet’s root servers. But since its […]

H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, the seventh largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, and Matrics Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of EPC-compliant Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, today announced that H.D. Smith is the first wholesaler to install an EPC RFID system to track controlled substance pharmaceuticals in their distribution center. According to Liz […]

Attaching a small contactless tag to an item of clothing enables garment rental companies and laundries to better keep track of items throughout their lifecycle. The chip is embedded inside a heat- and chemical-resistant token such that it can withstand frequent laundering and abuse. Sokymat has offered contactless laundry tags in the past, but this […]

Manhattan Associates and Alien Technology have teamed up with Microsoft to bring high performance EPC (electronic product code) compliant solutions to the enterprise market in the form of an ‘RFID In A Box’ solution. Using the Microsoft.NET framework for Manhattan Associates’ RFID-enabled supply chain execution applications, and the Microsoft Windows CE device platform for Alien […]

Hong Kong airport picks RFID baggage tracking “[Hong Kong Airport] announced that to “improve customer satisfaction” a baggage tracking infrastructure using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will be installed. The baggage tracking system, which will be the single largest RFID deployment in Asia, will be provided by Matrics Inc., a large designer and manufacturer of EPC […]

< ? $key="2718"; ?> The media and consumer advocate groups have criticized RFID as a threat to personal privacy for years. The industry is beginning to respond in forms of conferences, research and most importantly, corporate policy. This first issue of the RFID News monthly magazine provides a context of the debate through historical references, […]

While the RFID industry has focused in the last couple of years on developing complex hardware to meet commercial demand, a group of companies are beginning to push low-end, inexpensive tags that could eventually impact the supply-chain. These products use exotic fabrications or magnetic signature techniques to provide a low-cost automatic ID alternative to traditional […]

Jack Grasso is the Senior Director of Public Relations for EPCglobal US. What factors have contributed to the news media’s negative portrayal of RFID technology? Much of the early work and publicity surrounding RFID was focused much too far into the future and on applications outside of the supply chain. Pervasive item-level tagging is many […]

Patrick Burns is a Senior Manager in Verisign’s Corporate Communications Group. What steps should companies exploring item-level RFID programs take to protect their customers from perceived or actual violations of privacy? One of the things that early developers of RFID have already discovered is that information about products is stored much better on a network […]

Dan Swartwood is a Data Privacy Officer for Hewlett-Packard’s World Wide Customer Privacy Office. Should there be federal legislation limiting the use of RFID technology and the information it is able to gather? HP has been and continues to be an advocate for omnibus privacy legislation. In the U.S., we continue to legislate privacy in […]